Brief Crossing (2001)
Brève traversée (original title)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Sarah Pratt	...	Alice
	Gilles Guillain	...	Thomas
	Marc Filipi	...	Magicien
	Laëtitia Lopez	...	Assistante magicien
	Marc Jablonski	...	Cuisinier du self
	Christelle Dacosta	...	Douanier Français
	Nicholas Hawtrey	...	Vieil anglais
	Franck Lemaitre	...	Serveur de la boite
	Philippe Quaisse	...	Photographe
	Jean-Claude Cavelier	...	Serveur de la boite
	Alexandre Le Balidec	...	Douanier Français

Storyline

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep... Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude. Describing a passion while respecting classical tragedy's unity of time and place, setting the stage for the eternal play of Masculine/Feminine. A hot-blooded Latin temperatment versus an apparently cool English one. A ship - one night - Sudden intimacy between an Englishwoman whose complexion is frosted by bitterness and a teenager whose gaze glows like ardent coals. Written by Catherine Breillat  

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